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# מַלְכִּיָּהוּ

Biblical Hebrew

**Malchiah** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Malchiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5dc_5b0_5db_5b4_5bc_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַלְכִּיָּהוּ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5dc_5b0_5db_5b4_5bc_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (only Je 38:6), מַלְכִּיָּה n.pr.m. (my king is Yah;) cf. GrayProp. N. 119 f., 146 al.;—𝔊 Μελχ(ε)ια(ς).— father of Pashhur Je 21:1; 38:1, cf. 1 Ch 9:12 (priest), Ne 11:12. a prince Je 38:6. priests: I Ch 24:9. Ne 12:42. one of the sealed Ne 10:4; perhaps also 8:4. a Levite 1 Ch 6:25. various men: Ezr 10:25a. Ezr 10:25b. Ezr 10:31 = Ne 3:11. Ne 3:14. Ne 3:31.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Malkijah (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 38:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.38.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.38.6/#tree)

וַיִּקְח֣וּ אֶֽת־יִרְמְיָ֗הוּ וַיַּשְׁלִ֨כוּ אֹת֜וֹ אֶל־הַבּ֣וֹר ׀ מַלְכִּיָּ֣הוּ בֶן־הַמֶּ֗לֶךְ אֲשֶׁר֙ בַּחֲצַ֣ר הַמַּטָּרָ֔ה וַיְשַׁלְּח֥וּ אֶֽת־יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ בַּחֲבָלִ֑ים וּבַבּ֤וֹר אֵֽין־מַ֙יִם֙ כִּ֣י אִם־טִ֔יט וַיִּטְבַּ֥ע יִרְמְיָ֖הוּ בַּטִּֽיט׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.took (et) Jeremiah and they.threw him into the cistern of.Malkijah the.son of the.king which \[was\].in the.courtyard of the.guard and they.let.down (et) Jeremiah with ropes and in the cistern there.\[was\].not water (dm) (if) mud and he.sank Jeremiah in the mud

*JPS 1917:* Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the pit of Malchiah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard; and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the pit there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5dc_5b0_5db_5b4_5bc_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5dc_5b0_5db_5b4_5bc_5d9_5b8_5bc_5d4_5d5_5bc/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).